[Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Translations of the Wikimedia Highlights for February 2012 available in Nederlands (Dutch), 日本語 (Japanese), Italiano (Italian), Français (French), Deutsch (G
The following translation are now available for the February 2012 Wikimedia Highlights, which combine some of the most relevant information from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for February 2012 with a selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movement. Help is welcome in spreading the translated versions among the project communities for these languages, where this has not already been done. Many thanks to all translators! https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_February_2012/de Höhepunkte aus dem Bericht der Wikimedia Foundation und dem technischen Bericht von Wikimedia für Februar 2012, mit einer Auswahl anderer wichtiger Ereignisse aus der Wikimedia-Bewegung https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_February_2012/fr Éclairages sur le rapport de la Wikimedia Foundation et le rapport d’ingénierie Wikimedia pour février 2012, avec une sélection d’autres événements importants du mouvement Wikimedia. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_February_2012/it Punti salienti dal rapporto della Wikimedia Foundation e dal rapporto ingegneristico Wikimedia di febbraio 2012, con una selezione di altre importanti iniziative dagli eventi di Wikimedia https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_February_2012/ja 2012年2月のウィキメディア財団報告書及びウィキメディア技報の抄録ほかウィキメディア運動の重要行事について https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_February_2012/nl Hoogtepunten uit de Wikimedia Foundationrapportage en de Wikimedia technische rapportage voor februari 2012, aangevuld met een selectie van andere belangrijke gebeurtenissen binnen de Wikimediabeweging. Suggestions for the movement news section in the upcoming Highlights issue are welcome until April 4, see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights . -- Tilman Bayer Movement Communications Wikimedia Foundation IRC (Freenode): HaeB ___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Foundation-L, the public mailing list about the Wikimedia Foundation and its projects. For more information about Foundation-L: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l ___ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
[Foundation-l] Video of the Foundation's Metrics Activities meeting for February (Re: Wikimedia Foundation Report, February 2012)
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 8:11 AM, Tilman Bayer tba...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi all, please find below the WMF report for February 2012, in plain text. As always, the editable and formatted version is on Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Report,_February_2012 and the reports are posted on the Wikimedia blog, too: https://blog.wikimedia.org/c/corporate/wmf-monthly-reports/ Since a few months, we have been publishing a separate Highlights summary. Please consider helping non-English-language communities to stay updated, by providing a translation: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_February_2012 Many thanks to those who translated last month's Highlights into Arabic, Danish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Dutch and Vietnamese. While still focussing on WMF activities, the Highlights include a small selection of the most noteworthy events from the whole movement. Suggestions for the upcoming Febuary issue are welcome at (this should have read March issue, of course ;) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights (until April 4). As last time, the monthly Metrics Activities meeting at the WMF office has been recorded on video. The recording should become available on Commons within a few days. The upload has now completed and the video is at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monthly_Metrics_Meeting_March_1,_2012.ogv See also last month's general explanations by Erik about these meetings and video recordings (http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2012-February/071875.html ). In the future, the videos will continue to be included in the monthly report and the Highlights, and not be announced separately. -- Tilman Bayer Movement Communications Wikimedia Foundation IRC (Freenode): HaeB ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
[Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Foundation Report, February 2012
/Commons:Public_art_and_copyrights_in_the_US. Both Commons and the English Wikipedia have also been struggling with questions related to international copyright. In January, Commons approached us about a recent US court decision which may impact thousands of images hosted on Commons. The research produced by the legal interns is published in the community deletion discussion https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/All_files_copyrighted_in_the_US_under_the_URAA#Legal_team.27s_statement. The English Wikipedia is attempting to reach a consensus for handling content that is public domain in the United States because the United States does not have copyright relations with the country in which it was published. Our intern's work is published as part of that discussion http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Copyrightsoldid=480525394#Legal_team.27s_statement. Many thanks to them for their hard work. * Our team has been working on building a centralized legal corner for internal external use. We hope to create and compile useful resources for both staff and community members. * We are looking for a junior legal counsel who is an active Wikimedian. Here is the job posting: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Job_openings/Counsel * Stats o Number of contracts signed - 12 o Number of trademark requests - 10 + approved - 6 + denied - 2 + approval not needed - 1 + pending - 1 == Visitors and Guests == Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Members_of_the_German_Bundestag_visiting_the_Wikimedia_Foundation%27s_Office_February_13_2012.jpg Six members of the German parliament's sub-committee on new media visiting the Wikimedia Foundation's Office on February 13 1. Christian (Wikia) 2. Andrew Lih (Wikipedian/Author/Journalist/Professor) 3. Stan van de Burgt (founder of Watchmouse) 4. Jeroen Borgsteede (Manager of products Services, Kennisnet) 5. Renee Blodgett 6. Mayo Fuster Morell (Amical, RCom member, User:Lilaroja https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Lilaroja) 7. Sebastian Blumenthal (Bundestag) 8. Dr. Reinhard Brandl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhard_Brandl (Bundestag) 9. Thomas Jarzombek (Bundestag) 10. Lars Klingbeil (Bundestag) 11. Herbert Behrens (Bundestag) 12. Dr. Konstantin von Notz (Bundestag) 13. Dr. Franca Wolff (Bundestag) 14. Consul General Peter Rothen 15. Michael Ahrens, Consul Cultural and Press Affairs at the German Consulate General 16. Brigitta Richman, a translator 17. Dwight Wilson (WorldCorp Interns) 18. Mike Hegazy (Crunch Gym representative) 19. Grant Joung (ThoughtWorks) 20. Latoya Peterson (http://latoyapeterson.com/about/) 21. Sarah Stierch (WMF Community Fellow) 22. Jonathan Morgan (WMF Research Fellow) 23. Grant Marie Claire (Thoughtworks) 24. Otavio Good (Wikipedian) 25. James Cullen Heaphy III (Wikipedian) 26. Essam Sharaf (Wikipedian) 27. David Munir 28. Terry Brodt (CWT travel) 29. Tilman Bayer 30. Andrew Garrett 31. Linda Chang (Design MBA program at California College of the Arts) 32. Rana Cho (Design MBA program at California College of the Arts) 33. Ali Musleh (Design MBA program at California College of the Arts) 34. Arash Shirinbab (Design MBA program at California College of the Arts) 35. Max Klein (Wikipedian) 36. Valerie Ball (KPMG) 37. Stu West (WMF Board of Trustees member) 38. Ting Chen (Chair of WMF Board of Trustees) 39. Jimmy Wales (WMF Board of Trustees member) 40. Jan-Bart de Vreede (Vice Chair of WMF Board of Trustees) 41. Kat Walsh (WMF Board of Trustees member) 42. Arne Klempert (WMF Board of Trustees member) 43. Matt Halprin (WMF Board of Trustees member) 44. Bishakha Datta (WMF Board of Trustees member) 45. Phoebe Ayers (WMF Board of Trustees member) 46. Deborah Bezona (D. Bezona Company) 47. Juan Carlos Guaqueta (Chile) 48. 20 community members (English Wikipedians, editors of Wiktionary, Wikisource, as well as Portuguese and German Wikipedia) -- Tilman Bayer Movement Communications Wikimedia Foundation IRC (Freenode): HaeB ___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Foundation-L, the public mailing list about the Wikimedia Foundation and its projects. For more information about Foundation-L: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l ___ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Communicating effectively: Wikimedia needs clear language now
think I'm particularly stupid or uninformed. Nor do I think that the people who write in the manner I've described do it consciously. But we do need to fix it. If well-educated, informed native English speakers struggle with learnings and accountabilities and so on, what about those who don't natively speak English? When people see sloppy, buzzword-driven language, they wonder if this reflects sloppy, buzzword-driven thinking, or perhaps obfuscation. Clear writing signals the opposite: clear thinking and transparency. I'm not suggesting we all need to write as if we're editing Simple English Wikipedia. But just cut out the buzzwords and write plainly and straightforwardly like the best writing on Wikipedia. What can be done about this? There seem to be two possible solutions to this problem: one involves hiring a dominatrix with a linguistics degree to wander the San Francisco office with handcuffs, a bullwhip, a number of live gerbils and plentiful supplies of superglue, and given free reign to enforce the rules in whatever way she deems fit. Minus the sexual fantasies, a lot of this is already going on at the Foundation. Among the various communications people who help Foundation employees/contractors to inform the community and the public about their work, by reviewing and editing reports or blog posts before they are published, there are in fact longtime Wikipedians like our Technical Communications Manager Guillaume (cf. https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Blog/Guidelinesdiff=nextoldid=2651649#No_puffing ) and myself (whose edit summaries on Wikipedia frequently include links to [[WP:PEACOCK]] ;). I'm not saying there is no room for improvement, but there is a lot of that stuff which doesn't make it into the published versions that you see. The other, which involves far fewer embarrassing carpet stains, is to empower the community to fix these problems. Have a nice little leaderboard on Meta, and encourage community members to be bold, fix up bad writing, bad grammar and buzzwords. Reward their efforts with barnstars and the occasional thank you messages on talk pages. Commit to clear writing by adopting a policy of copyediting almost always welcome for chapter wikis, Foundation documents and as close to everything as possible. You mean something like the conspicuous notice saying You are more than welcome to edit this report for the purposes of usefulness, presentation, etc that has been included on the top of each of the Foundation's monthly reports on Meta for almost two years now (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Report,_April_2010 ) ? There are volunteers in the movement who happily spend hour after hour copyediting on Wikipedia and Wikinews and Wikibooks and so on. Give them the opportunity to fix up the language used by the Foundation and the chapters. As exemplified above, for many texts published by the Foundation, this opportunity is already there (even those on Meta which do not carry that explicit invitation are on a wiki for a reason). And even on the closed Foundation wiki, many volunteers have editing rights and help out with exactly the sort of thing you describe (example from this week: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Draft/Staff_titles ). So I think it is more about motivating volunteers to take up this opportunity, rather than creating it. In fact, let me use the occasion and thank the volunteers who have copyedited or corrected the WMF monthly reports on Meta since I took over the task of publishing them in August, who include Tony1, Graham87, Ainali, Peteforsyth, Mike Peel, Jeremyb, Rich Farmbrough, Akaniji and yourself. Remember: how can community members support and become more deeply involved with the work of the chapters and the Foundation if they can't understand what you are saying? While I don't find all of your examples convincing, I fully endorse your goal in general and am in fact grateful for your email for entirely selfish reasons: It has the potential to facilitate my work a bit by providing valuable ammunition ;) -- Tom Morris http://tommorris.org/ ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -- Tilman Bayer Movement Communications Wikimedia Foundation IRC (Freenode): HaeB ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
[Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Translations of January 2012 Wikimedia Highlights available in العربية (Arabic), Dansk (Danish), Français (French), Magyar (Hungarian), Italiano (Italian), N
The following translation are now available for the January 2012 Wikimedia Highlights, which combine some of the most relevant information from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for January 2012 with a selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movement. Help is welcome in spreading the translated versions among the project communities for these languages, where this has not already been done. Many thanks to all translators! https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_January_2012/vi Những điểm nổi bật từ Bản báo cáo Wikimedia Foundation và phản hồi kỹ thuật Wikimedia vào tháng 1 năm 2012, bao gồm các sự kiện quan trọng khác của phong trào Wikimedia https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_January_2012/nl Hoogtepunten uit de Wikimedia Foundationrapportage en de Wikimedia technische rapportage voor januari 2012, aangevuld met een selectie van andere belangrijke gebeurtenissen binnen de Wikimediabeweging. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_January_2012/it Punti salienti dal rapporto della Wikimedia Foundation e dal rapporto ingegneristico Wikimedia di gennaio 2012, con una selezione di altre importanti iniziative dagli eventi di Wikimedia https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_January_2012/hu A Wikimédia Alapítvány beszámolójának és a Wikimédia mérnöki beszámolónak fontosabb pontjai illetve más fontos események a Wikimédia-mozgalomból 2012 januárjában. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_January_2012/fr Éclairages sur le rapport de la Fondation Wikimédia et le rapport d’ingénierie Wikimédia pour janvier 2012, avec une sélection d’autres évènements importants du mouvement Wikimédia. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_January_2012/da Hovedpunkter fra Wikimedia Foundations månedsrapport og Wikimedias tekniske rapport for januar 2012 med et udvalg af andre betydningsfulde hændelser i Wikimedia-bevægelsen https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_January_2012/ar أهم المقتطفات من تقرير مؤسسة ويكيميديا و تقرير ويكيميديا الهندسي لشهر يناير 2012، مع مجموعة من أهم الأحداث لحركة ويكيميديا (Translations into other languages, such as Finnish, might become available later this month, check https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_January_2012 ). Suggestions for the movement news section in the upcoming Highlights issue are welcome until March 1, see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights . Also a quick note that on the suggestion of users Timeshifter and Buster Keaton, we have started a (still experimental) global subscription service for the Wikimedia Highlights, similar to that of the Signpost. If you would like to receive a summary message delivered to your user talk page on any Wikimedia project right after each issue is published, add yourself to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Wikimedia_Highlights (at the moment this is for the English original, but eventually subscription should become available for the translated versions as well). -- Tilman Bayer Movement Communications Wikimedia Foundation IRC (Freenode): HaeB ___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Foundation-L, the public mailing list about the Wikimedia Foundation and its projects. For more information about Foundation-L: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l ___ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
[Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Foundation Report, January 2012
/Request_for_Information_on_Public_Access_to_Peer-Reviewed_Scholarly_Publications_Resulting_From_Federally_Funded_Research to the White House RFI on Public Access to Scholarly Publications. * The open data consultation https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en_USformkey=dGNBSGFUcTdJLUxLcGpoWUNoQXM0SGc6MQ we launched in December closed with 100 responses. The results will be published this month. * Several Research Committee and community members worked on the English Wikipedia article for the Research Works Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_Works_Act, a proposed bill that would undermine open access mandates for publicly funded research in the US. The bill would affect our research policy as it would make it hard for RCom to enforce any OA and open data requirements for research collaborations. The article made it to DYK on January 15, 2012. * Dario Taraborelli gave a podcast interview http://futurejournalismproject.org/post/16028914688/wikimedia-data-and-peer-production-with-dario-taraborell with Michael Cervieri for the Future Journalism Project, discussing what Wikipedia can do to support data journalism. * Dario Taraborelli co-hosted with APS cognitive psychology professor Greta Munger a session on Scientists and Wikipedia http://scienceonline2012.sched.org/event/db96864b9ce76d4792a7f0f21f7611aa at Science Online 2012 http://scienceonline2012.com/ in Raleigh, NC (slides Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Venues_for_expert_participation_in_Wikipedia.pdf). * We set up a Wikimedia group http://thedatahub.org/group/wikimedia on the /DataHub/, an open data repository powered by CKAN http://ckan.net. The repository is for testing purposes but all data deposited will be preserved and migrated once we've finalized the configuration of the repository. * Mayo Fuster Morell circulated a call for papers http://www.onlinecreation.info/?p=474 calling for contributions on Academic research into Wikipedia: Beyond English Wikipedia and towards comparative perspectives. The submission deadline is March 1, 2012. * Tilman Bayer led the publication of the first 2012 issue https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2012-01-30 of the Wikimedia Research Newsletter. == Community == Department Highlights * Lots of clean up/ wrap up work from the fundraiser; Lots of planning work already done for the 2012 fundraiser * 23 fellowship project proposals and suggestions received for the Fellowship program. * Community reader relations team supported SOPA work and fundraising and funds dissemination discussion. * Wrapping up template testing pilot project, beginning analysis of results === Projects === Editor Retention * Other than new community requests to test on the Wikimedia Incubator and Commons, the majority of template A/B tests have been wrapped up. Ryan Faulkner, formerly part of the fundraising team, has joined our group as the Community Research Analyst to further understand template testing results, and the group is now publishing test results on Meta as they come in.[1] * The Community Dept. is hosting the first 2012 meet-up of California Wikipedians at the Foundation offices on Saturday, Feb 4 — coinciding with the Board of Trustees meeting. [2] * We are planning a series of meet-ups with Brazilian editors in early March to better understand their community and its dynamics, and give those authors a place to voice issues that the Foundation may be able to assist with. [3] * Collecting resumes and scheduling preliminary screenings of candidates for the 2012 Community Summer Analysts, whose work will focus on providing working data and actionable recommendations for community change programs. [4] * Wrapping up a proof-of-concept analytic project with Odiago, who has provided some insight into authorship questions with big data analysis of our diff data. 1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template_A/B_testing 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/San_Francisco_17 3. https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Convenings/Portuguese_Wikipedia 4. https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Job_openings/Summer_Community_Analytics === Fundraising === Fundraiser * Gathered all fundraising staff and contractors in San Francisco for the 2011 Fundraiser Retrospective. We recapped accomplishments, and identified pain points and successes in communications and process so that the next fundraiser can be run more smoothly with a leaner team. * Began writing the 2011 Fundraiser Report which will be publicly posted in 2012. * Held a planning session for the 2012 Fundraiser. Over two days, the team set priorities for this year and focused on mapping out a division of responsibility, communication and tracking
[Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] WMF Global Development Midyear report 2011-12
Hi all, the Wikimedia Foundation's Global Development department has recently published a midyear report on its activities, regarding the 2011-12 annual plan. You can find it on Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Global_Development_Midyear_report_2011-12 -- Tilman Bayer Movement Communications Wikimedia Foundation IRC (Freenode): HaeB ___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Foundation-L, the public mailing list about the Wikimedia Foundation and its projects. For more information about Foundation-L: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l ___ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
[Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Translations of December 2011 Wikimedia Highlights available in Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese), Nederlands (Dutch), Norsk/bokmål (Norwegian), 日本語 (Japanese), Italia
This is to draw attention to the translations that have been made available for the December 2011 Wikimedia Highlights - combining some of the most relevant information from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for December 2011 with a selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movement. Help is welcome in spreading the translated versions among the project communities for these languages, where this has not already been done. Many thanks to all translators! https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_December_2011/da Hovedpunkter fra Wikimedia Foundations månedsrapport og Wikimedias tekniske rapport for december 2011 med et udvalg af andre betydningsfulde hændelser i Wikimedia-bevægelsen https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_December_2011/de Highlights aus dem Wikimedia Foundation Report und dem Wikimedia engineering report für Dezember 2011, mit einer Auswahl anderer wichtiger Ereignisse aus der Wikimedia-Bewegung https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_December_2011/fi Kohokohdat Wikimedia Foundationin raportista ja Wikimedian ohjelmistotuotantoraportista joulukuussa 2011 sekä kuukauden muut tärkeät tapahtumut Wikimedia-liikkeessä https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_December_2011/it Punti salienti dal rapporto della Wikimedia Foundation e dal rapporto ingegneristico Wikimedia di dicembre 2011, con una selezione di altre importanti iniziative dagli eventi di Wikimedia https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_December_2011/ja 2011年12月のウィキメディア財団報告書及びウィキメディア技報の抄録ほかウィキメディア運動の重要行事について https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_December_2011/nb Høydepunkter fra Wikimedia Foundations rapport og Wikimedias tekniske avdelings rapport for desember 2011, med et utvalg av andre viktige hendelser fra Wikimedia-bevegelsen https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_December_2011/nl Hoogtepunten uit de Wikimedia Foundationrapportage en de Wikimedia technische rapportage voor december 2011, aangevuld met een selectie van andere belangrijke gebeurtenissen binnen de Wikimediabeweging. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_December_2011/vi Những điểm nổi bật từ Bản báo cáo Wikimedia Foundation và phản hồi kỹ thuật Wikimedia vào tháng 12 năm 2011, bao gồm các sự kiện quan trọng khác của phong trào Wikimedia You will also find partial translations into French and Polish linked at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_December_2011. Suggestions for notable items to cover in the short selection of the most important movement news in the upcoming Highlights issue are welcome until the beginning of January, see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights . Also a quick note that on the suggestion of users Timeshifter and Buster Keaton, we have started a (still experimental) global subscription service for the Wikimedia Highlights, similar to that of the Signpost. If you would like to receive a summary message delivered to your user talk page on any Wikimedia project right after each issue is published, add yourself to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Wikimedia_Highlights (at the moment this is for the English original, but eventually subscription should become available for the translated versions as well). -- Tilman Bayer Movement Communications Wikimedia Foundation IRC (Freenode): HaeB ___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Foundation-L, the public mailing list about the Wikimedia Foundation and its projects. For more information about Foundation-L: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l ___ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
[Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Foundation Report, December 2011
- and we're in process of hiring a Director of HR and restructuring roles until the HR director comes on board. We have vision of an effective, smooth, and supportive department. As Gayle gets her feet under her, we will be identifying our key priorities and communicating to the organization about them. Jeanie Mayall started last September, gracefully taking on a great number of tasks when Daniel left. She is accepting a position as a Manager of HR with a start-up down the street. In the last few months, she has handled open enrollment with great success, immigration issues, contractors and the contracting process, compliance, and non-California tax issues. She has agreed to be accessible on an ongoing basis and we are working to proactively transition open issues. Real-time feed for HR updates: http://identi.ca/wikimediaatwork or http://twitter.com/wikimediaatwork == Finance and Administration == Isa will be transitioning, in the month of January, out of her role as Interim Head of Office Administration. Many thanks to Isa for all of her good work during her time at WMF. We are continuing our search for a new Head of Office Administration and a Senior Accountant. We completed a review of internal security systems and began implementing recommendations. == Legal == * The 120+-day comment period for the proposed user agreement http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_use comes to an end with strong community participation (see general Highlights section above). * Continued support of community during its review of SOPA and IP Protect. For the community discussion page (to which we contribute), go here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative. Geoff's blog post is here http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/12/13/how-sopa-will-hurt-the-free-web-and-wikipedia/. * IRC office hours on legal strategy took place with this summary http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Geoffbrigham/Strategy. * Consideration of legal strategy for challenging Loriot decision on stamps in Germany. For the legal and community discussion, go here http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Loriot_Signature_Background * Ninth Circuit - which decides case law applicable to the Wikimedia sites - affirms DMCA safe harbor in an excellent decision. You can find a summary of the decision and a copy of it here http://title17.net/2011/12/umg-v-veoh-ninth-circuit-affirms-dmca-safe-harbor-for-veoh/. Andrew, our legal intern, prepared for Geoff a summary of the decision here http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3AUMG_v._Veoh_Summary.pdfpage=1. * Note the recent restrictions on Internet access in Belarus that could affect Wikimedia. See http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120103/07193917260/no-belarus-is-not-cut-off-internet-new-restrictions-are-still-pretty-bad.shtml Stats: * # contracts signed - 11 * # trademark requests - 8 o approved - 3 o denied - 1 o approval not needed - 1 o pending - 5 == Visitors and Guests == 1. Deborah Bezona (D. Bezona Company) 2. Valerie Ball (KPMG) 3. Diane Peters (Creative Commons) 4. Hana Yariv (Wikimedia Israel) 5. Jan-Bart de Vreede (WMF Board of Trustees) 6. Kat Walsh (WMF Board of Trustees) 7. Chris Bishko (Omidyar Network, Investment Director) 8. Eric E. Johnson (Affiliate Scholar, Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society, Associate Professor of Law, University of North Dakota School of Law) 9. Carol Reed (National Sales Manager, Travel and Transport) 10. Christie Goodfellow and Denise Truong (Triton Hotel) 11. Lori Byrd Phillips (The Children's Museum of Indianapolis) -- Tilman Bayer Movement Communications Wikimedia Foundation IRC (Freenode): HaeB ___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Foundation-L, the public mailing list about the Wikimedia Foundation and its projects. For more information about Foundation-L: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l ___ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: Fabrice Florin joins Wikimedia
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 10:26 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: Bod Notbod, 10/01/2012 21:57: It would be lovely if each of the new hires could guest post on the Foundation blog and/or write a page for Signpost once they've settled in and let us know what their average day is like and some insight into what they're working on. The staff is now getting to a size where even close followers of Wikimedia are liable to lose track. Some effort to keep the community feeling that they know all the staff would be much appreciated. Personal perspectives are perhaps not very suitable for the official blog (but may be), anyway engineering reports are being published regularly since a while and they're a very good way to know what's going on at least in the technology department, without having to read MiB of text. https://blog.wikimedia.org/c/technology/wmf-engineering-reports/ The other departments are more obscure. :-) The other departments provide similar updates in the general WMF monthly reports, see https://blog.wikimedia.org/c/corporate/wmf-monthly-reports/ (or https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_reports#Monthly_reports ). -- Tilman Bayer Movement Communications Wikimedia Foundation IRC (Freenode): HaeB ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
[Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Highlights: November issue translated (Dansk, Español, Français, Italiano, 日本語, Nederlands, Tiếng Việt) / news suggestions wanted for December issue
This is to draw attention to the translations that have been made available for the November 2011 Wikimedia Highlights - combining some of the most relevant information from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for November 2011 with a selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movement. Help is welcome in spreading the translated versions among the project communities for these languages, where this has not already been done.Many thanks to all translators! https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_November_2011/da Hovedpunkter fra Wikimedia Foundations månedsrapport og Wikimedias tekniske rapport for november 2011 med et udvalg af andre betydningsfulde hændelser i Wikimedia-bevægelsen https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_November_2011/es Destacados del Informe de la Fundación Wikimedia y del informe de los ingenieros de la Fundación para el mes de noviembre de 2011, con una selección de otros eventos importantes del movimiento Wikimedia https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_November_2011/fr Éclairages sur le rapport de la Fondation Wikimedia et le rapport d’ingénierie Wikimedia pour novembre 2011, avec une sélection d’autres évènements importants du mouvement Wikimedia. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_November_2011/it Approfondimenti dal rapporto della Wikimedia Foundation e dal rapporto ingegneristico Wikimedia di novembre 2011, con una selezione di altre importanti iniziative dagli eventi di Wikimedia. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_November_2011/ja 2011年11月のウィキメディア財団報告書及びウィキメディア技術報告の抄録ほかウィキメディア運動の重要行事について https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_November_2011/nl Hoogtepunten uit de Wikimedia Foundationrapportage en de Wikimedia technische rapportage voor november 2011, aangevuld met een selectie van andere belangrijke gebeurtenissen binnen de Wikimediabeweging. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_November_2011/vi Những điểm nổi bật từ Bản báo cáo Wikimedia Foundation và phản hồi kỹ thuật Wikimedia vào tháng 11 năm 2011, bao gồm các sự kiện quan trọng khác của phong trào Wikimedia The December Wikimedia Highlights are currently being prepared. Suggestions for notable items to be covered in the short movement news part are still welcome until Tuesday afternoon UTC, see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights . Also a quick note that on the suggestion of users Timeshifter and Buster Keaton, we're starting a (still experimental) global subscription service for the Wikimedia Highlights, similar to that of the Signpost. If you would like to receive a summary message delivered to your user talk page on any Wikimedia project right after each issue is published, add yourself to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Wikimedia_Highlights (at the moment this is for the English original, but eventually subscription should become available for the translated versions as well). Regards, Tilman -- Tilman Bayer Movement Communications Wikimedia Foundation IRC (Freenode): HaeB ___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Foundation-L, the public mailing list about the Wikimedia Foundation and its projects. For more information about Foundation-L: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l ___ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Foundation's 2010-11 Annual Report
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 7:38 PM, Abbas Mahmood abbas...@hotmail.com wrote: From: tba...@wikimedia.org Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2011 13:35:18 +0100 To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Foundation's 2010-11 Annual Report Just a quick note that the final proof has not been sent to the printer yet; last-minute corrections to the printed version are still possible today. I had set up an Etherpad to collect these at http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/Ar201011fixes - at the moment, it only contains the Janvier typo and one concerning the Arabic name for Wikimedia Israel. Were you aware of other examples? Corrections to the wiki versions will continue to be most welcome - it's part of their raison d'être. Hi Tilman, I do have something to add. I can't make the edit on etherpad via my mobile, my apologies in advance: One of the donors is listed as Abdulla Al-Thani (whom I suppose is from Qatar). Unfortunately, this name is quite confusing for me since there are many people in the Qatari royal family who have the same name. Some include Abdullah (bin Khalid) Al Thani and Abdullah (bin Khalif) Al Thani -- both of whom are part of the Qatari government. I'm guessing that the person who donated this money is Abdulla bin Ali Al Thani (from Qatar Foundation). It might be good to indicate his middle name as well in the donors list, to avoid confusion. --Abbas. Hi Abbas, thanks for the interesting explanation, I agree that the middle name could be quite relevant information. We looked into the matter, but eventually there wasn't a sufficient basis at this point for changing the name from the one that the donor gave us, or otherwise specifying his identity further. (Respecting the WMF's donor privacy is quite important. For example we also had to take care to honor the requests of those few donors who did not wish to for their name to be publicized, they are listed as Anonymous in the report.) -- Tilman Bayer Movement Communications Wikimedia Foundation IRC (Freenode): HaeB ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Foundation's 2010-11 Annual Report
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Seb35 seb35wikipe...@gmail.com wrote: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 15:29:51 -0800, Jay Walsh jwa...@wikimedia.org wrote: The Wikimedia Foundation is happy to announce the release of the 2010-11 Annual Report, which is now posted on the WMF Wiki at http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Annual_Report Thanks for this beautiful Annual Report :) Much appreciated also the translations! I have two points I would like see to happen in the process of the creation of this report: * a proofread by the community before the final issue; perhaps I missed it, but I didn’t find anything on foundation-l; for example it has been remarked a typo on the second page Jean Javier - Jean Janvier, corrected in the wiki version Just a quick note that the final proof has not been sent to the printer yet; last-minute corrections to the printed version are still possible today. I had set up an Etherpad to collect these at http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/Ar201011fixes - at the moment, it only contains the Janvier typo and one concerning the Arabic name for Wikimedia Israel. Were you aware of other examples? Corrections to the wiki versions will continue to be most welcome - it's part of their raison d'être. -- Tilman Bayer Movement Communications Wikimedia Foundation IRC (Freenode): HaeB ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
[Foundation-l] Translations of October 2011 Wikimedia Highlights available in Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese), Nederlands (Dutch), 日本語 (Japanese), Italiano (Italian), Français (French), Suomi (Finnish), Es
Translations into several languages are now available for the October 2011 Wikimedia Highlights - combining some of the most relevant information from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for October 2011 with a selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movement. Help is welcome in spreading the translated versions among the project communities for these languages. Many thanks to all translators! Suggestions for notable items to cover in the short movement news part of the upcoming Highlights issue are welcome until the beginning of December, see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights . Regards, Tilman -- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_October_2011/de Höhepunkte aus dem Monatsbericht und dem technischen Bericht der Wikimedia Foundation für Oktober 2011, samt einer Auswahl anderer wichtiger Ereignisse aus dem Wikimedia-Universum https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_October_2011/es Destacados del informe de la Fondación Wikimedia y el informe de ingeniería por octubre de 2011, con una selección de otros eventos importantes del movimiento Wikimedia https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_October_2011/fi Kohokohdat Wikimedia Foundationin raportista ja Wikimedian ohjelmistotuotantoraportista lokakuussa 2011 sekä kuukauden muut tärkeät tapahtumut Wikimedia-liikkeessä https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_October_2011/fr Éclairages sur le rapport de la Fondation Wikimedia et le rapport d’ingénierie Wikimedia pour octobre 2011, avec une sélection d’autres évènements importants du mouvement Wikimedia. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_October_2011/it Approfondimenti dal rapporto Wikimedia Foundation e dal rapporto ingegneristico Wikimedia di ottobre 2011, con una selezione di altri eventi importanti dai movimenti di Wikimedia https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_October_2011/ja 2011年10月のウィキメディア財団報告書及びウィキメディア技術報告の抄録ほかウィキメディア活動の重要行事について https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_October_2011/nl Hoogtepunten uit de Wikimedia Foundationrapportage en de Wikimedia technische rapportage voor oktober 2011, aangevuld met een selectie van andere belangrijke gebeurtenissen binnen de Wikimediabeweging. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_October_2011/vi Những điểm nổi bật từ Bản báo cáo Wikimedia Foundation và phản hồi kỹ thuật Wikimedia vào tháng 10 năm 2011, bao gồm các sự kiện quan trọng khác của phong trào Wikimedia -- Tilman Bayer Movement Communications Wikimedia Foundation IRC (Freenode): HaeB ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
[Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Translations of September 2011 Wikimedia Highlights available in العربية (Arabic), Deutsch (German), Italiano (Italian), 日本語 (Japanese)
Hi, as mentioned in last week's announcement of the September 2011 Wikimedia Foundation report, this time we published a separate Highlights summary, combining excerpts from the general report and the engineering report. It's an experiment, a format which might be useful for those who might find the full reports long to read, and it facilitates translations. Several translations are now available (help is welcome in spreading them): مجموعة من أهم ما جاء في تقرير مؤسسة ويكيميديا وتقرير هندسة ويكيمييديا لشهر سبتمبر 2011 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Highlights,_September_2011/ar Höhepunkte aus dem Monatsbericht und dem technischen Bericht der Wikimedia Foundation für September 2011 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Highlights,_September_2011/de I punti salienti presi dal Wikimedia Foundation Report e dal Wikimedia engineering report del mese di Settembre 2011 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Highlights,_September_2011/it 2011年9月のウィキメディア財団報告書及びウィキメディア技術報告より抄録 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Highlights,_September_2011/ja Thanks to all translators! Translations can still be added at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Highlights,_September_2011 As said above, this is an experiment, so it would be nice to hear how useful the result is to people, and what could be improved. I would also like to take the occasion to draw attention to Wikimedia:Woche, an new weekly newsletter run by the German Wikimedia chapter, summarizing news from the whole movement in German language (http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/vereinde-l/2011-September/005121.html ). To my knowledge it is the first initiative of its kind by a chapter (of course there are already volunteer-run publications such as the Signpost, Wikizine and Kurier). -- Tilman Bayer Movement Communications Wikimedia Foundation IRC (Freenode): HaeB ___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Foundation-L, the public mailing list about the Wikimedia Foundation and its projects. For more information about Foundation-L: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l ___ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Sending announcements to this list
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Bence Damokos bdamo...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 12:52 AM, Tilman Bayer tba...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 12:29 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: On 9 August 2011 01:24, Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net wrote: Hi all, Just to check: I've been assuming of late that everyone that's interested in reading announcements (including things like chapter reports, committee reports and signpost issues) is subscribed to the wikimediaannounce-l mailing list - is that a valid assumption, or should reports continue to be sent to this list? I'm not subscribed to the announcements list. The idea was that everything that goes to the announcements list would also go here (as would replies to anything on the announcements list). That was supposed to be automatic, but I think there were some problems getting it to work. Could someone have another go? There must be some way to do it... (if you can't just subscribe one list to the other, how about creating a new email address that just forwards everything to foundation-l and subscribing that to the announcements list?) Ral315 and I spent some time figuring out how, but now it seems to work: Messages from WikimediaAnnounce-l are being forwarded to Foundation-l again. And Geoff had the (unwitting) honor of re-inaugurating the gateway ;) http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2011-September/068171.html It might just be me, but I think the forwarding only works if one is subscribed to the foundation-l list with the e-mail address he uses for the wikimediaannounce-l. (At least I got a notice that the letter I sent to WA-l just now was rejected due to spam.) Thanks for the heads-up, we'll look into it - could you forward me the rejection notice offlist? (For other readers: We are talking about rejection by Foundation-l. The WikimediaAnnounce-l copy of the letter went through just fine: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaannounce-l/2011-September/000239.html ) Regards, Tilman -- Tilman Bayer Movement Communications Wikimedia Foundation ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Sending announcements to this list
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 12:29 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: On 9 August 2011 01:24, Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net wrote: Hi all, Just to check: I've been assuming of late that everyone that's interested in reading announcements (including things like chapter reports, committee reports and signpost issues) is subscribed to the wikimediaannounce-l mailing list - is that a valid assumption, or should reports continue to be sent to this list? I'm not subscribed to the announcements list. The idea was that everything that goes to the announcements list would also go here (as would replies to anything on the announcements list). That was supposed to be automatic, but I think there were some problems getting it to work. Could someone have another go? There must be some way to do it... (if you can't just subscribe one list to the other, how about creating a new email address that just forwards everything to foundation-l and subscribing that to the announcements list?) Ral315 and I spent some time figuring out how, but now it seems to work: Messages from WikimediaAnnounce-l are being forwarded to Foundation-l again. And Geoff had the (unwitting) honor of re-inaugurating the gateway ;) http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2011-September/068171.html -- Tilman Bayer Movement Communications Wikimedia Foundation ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
